Feisty - Network manager loses wireless connection but does not show in knetworkmanager and pretty much locks up system.

[Puck]

I'm using a Netgear wg311v3 with the initial driver release and the NDIS wrapper. When ever my wireless loses connection because of a bad signal (I'm assumig this because I had frequent drops before because of a weak signal) knetworkmanager does now show it. If I try to reconnect to the network or connect to a different network it'll just say that it's trying to connect and it'll stay on that, never connecting. After the disconnection most programs will not run even after killing X with ctrl+alt+backspace, not even X again. Even if I switch to TTY1 I can't even run sudo killall on anything. All I can do is ctrl-alt-del and restart.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 17 02:26:56 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux puck 2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 08:03:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Can anyone confirm? I have never experienced this issue and use KNetworkManager for about 18 hours a day on my laptop.

[Puck (puck-studioafterlife)]

It also does this in gnome and enlightenment regardless of if I'm using knetworkmanager. It says I'm still connected to the network on knetworkmanager but all programs lose internet access and if I try to reconnect to the network or connect to a different one it gets stuck.

When I go to restart it says something like the avahi daemon failing to shut down then it takes forever to shut down the network manager.

[Puck (puck-studioafterlife)]

Here's a bit more info.

The system doesn't become completely unresponsive immediately. It starts with only program that access the network being unresponsive and then everything. When I try to log off and restart it will stop at a blank screen until I ctrl+alt+backspace and the only way to start shutdown is to ctrl+alt+del before the x server has a chance to start again.After it that it stop most often at shutting down my vmware networks and will usually stay there indefinately. I usually just ctrl+alt+prntscr+s then ctrl+alt+prntscr+b. I still usually have to do fsck manually after it finds that my root partition isn't clean. None of this happened until I upgraded from Edgy.

[Puck (puck-studioafterlife)]

Also I have found out that it has nothing to do with my connection getting dropped. I can unplug the router and it doesn't cause this.

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

Hi Puck, Could you please test if this still happens on a Gutsy system? Ideally on a clean install or live CD. Thanks!

[Puck (puck-studioafterlife)]

Sure! I'll download a live cd and test it.

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Hi Puck, Could you please test if this still happens on a Gutsy system?
> Ideally on a clean install or live CD. Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
>

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Any chance to test the latest daily live cd?

 - Alexander

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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